COMPUTE anger
I'll speak up. I'm a regular Compute columnist. If you'd take off your
Amiga blinders for a moment, it will begin to make sense. Most of the
personal computer market has a PC or a Mac. They don't want to read Amiga
stuff. They don't mind seeing Mac or PC stuff, even if they don't own one,
because they probably mingle with the other machine. Compute did Amiga
people a favor by keeping an Amiga section. They could have dropped it
very easily. Instead, they found a solution that could keep Compute's
Amiga coverage going, by piggy-backing on a PC and Mac magazine. Frankly,
I'm happy that a major magazine publisher has an Amiga title in their line,
the same way I'm glad that IDG has kept AmigaWorld around all these years.
Without these two flagship magazines, what would we have? The other
Amiga-specific publishers scare Death and Creditors away from their door
every month. I wish I could tell you how close they've all come to closing
their doors. I'm sure both General Media and IDG have reconsidered their
Amiga magazines more than once. The magazine market changes quickly, and a
magazine about computers lives with a double risk: the whims of the
publishing market and the whims of the computer market.